What is husk?

husk is a practical implementation of the Scheme programming language for the Haskell Platform. A superset of the R5RS standard is provided, along with most of the R7RS standard. Advanced features include:

First-class continuations of unlimited extent

Hygienic macros based on syntax-rules

Low-level explicit renaming macros

Library syntax from the R7RS standard

A foreign function interface (FFI) to Haskell

Full numeric tower providing support for real, rational, and complex numbers

Standard library of Scheme functions, and support for many popular SRFI's

Husk may be used as either a stand-alone interpreter or as an extension language within a larger Haskell application,
and is available under the MIT license.

Background

Scheme is one of two main dialects of Lisp. Scheme follows a minimalist design philosophy, with the core language consisting of a small number of fundamental forms. Scheme is an excellent language for writing small, elegant programs, and may also be used to develop domain-specific languages or embed scripting functionality within a larger application.